[pima.nius] Pacific media specialist calls for solidarity in Fiji media to resist regime

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Talofa All,

I spoke, briefly, to my paper, entitled What to Do When the Statements
Fail - Deploying Nonviolent Direct Action in Defence of Pacific Media
Freedom, at the Pacific Islands Political Studies Association (PIPSA)
conference in Auckland last week (where the weather was just terrible
and where I got the flu :( ).

I now have to sharpen my paper, add a lot of references, and send it to
the PIPSA organisers by the end of December, so it will be available On
Line early in 2010.

I'd also be interested in Off List Talanoa with folks here about this
stuff, as one thing that puzzles me is why more Pacific Islanders,
particularly in Fiji, aren't deploying nonviolence to resist particular
instances of localised domination (and fear of getting beaten up by the
regime's stooges is just one reason, a very obvious reason to be sure).

The Fiji regime knows all about this stuff, as one can discern from an
informed reading of that otherwise outrageous FHRC "Report" justifying
the deportation of Russell Hunter and Evan Hannah. Get your copy here -

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6682601/FHRC-Report-on-Russell-Hunter-and-Evan-Hannahs-Deportation

RNZI's Johnny Blades interviewed me and here's the very brief story from
his interview.

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http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=50849


   Pacific media specialist calls for solidarity in Fiji media to
   resist regime

Posted at 02:34 on 10 December, 2009 UTC

There's been a call for more solidarity among Fiji's media outlets to
defy censorship imposed by the interim government.

Dr Mark Hayes, a specialist in Pacific media and Journalism at the
University of Queensland, is urging non-violent direct action against
the Fiji military regime's dominance.

Dr Hayes says steady resistance to the interim regime, including
shunning communication with its media censors and strict compliance with
legal institutions, will erode its power.

He says Fiji's media should form a phalanx of solidarity.

   "Complete solidarity; so that an attack on one outlet or an attack
   on one or a small number of journalists from one outlet becomes an
   attack on all of them. They will come for you and you need to
   prepare for revenge attacks, for what we call backfire. You come
   near us, you're going to get stung... and in ways that you are not
   really being able to predict."

Dr Mark Hayes adds that there are many techniques for media outlets to
get around the regime's internet censorhip.

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